Category: Making Memories with NVC

It comes as no surprise. With their combined backgrounds in education, development, and government service, it was an easy choice for Anton and Kathryn Taruc. Instead of sending their wedding guests home with keepsakes, this couple instead gifted 40 students from deprived families of indigenous tribes with LoveBags filled with school supplies. Be blessed, Anton and...

Just in time for Christmas, 110 children from a shoreline barangay in Valladolid, Negros Occidental received LoveBags or LoveFits slippers, all donated, hand packed, and distributed in person by the Ong family of Bacolod and Singapore. Thank you for sharing the LOVE!

Tradition calls for the bride and groom to gift their wedding sponsors with a keepsake, but Chicco and Ada are not doing this on their wedding day, December 8, 2018. Instead, for every godparent, they have enrolled one child in NVC Foundation’s Mingo Meals nutrition program. This unconventional choice will fill 22 hungry little stomachs...

It wasn’t quite like the kind of birthday parties that Matty would ordinarily have in his home in the USA, or the kind he would attend when he would come to visit relatives in the Philippines. That’s because Matty celebrated his 6th birthday with 50 kinder kids of lesser means in a public school in...

The best of lives, it is said, is one that keeps on giving long after it has physically left the earth. Today, 21 years after he passed on, Mikel Lovina’s family and friends, and even those who do not know anyone at all in his circle have done just that for him. The Mikel Lovina...

For many decades of her life, Mary An Kilayko-Gonzalez was wheelchair bound. When God took her away on December 13, 2015, her classmates knew that a life as beautiful as hers needed to somehow be made to continue living in others. They embarked on a project in partnership with NVC Foundation and began to receive...

When engaged couple Cathee Daguia and Jea Amados were making plans for their August 20, 2016 wedding, they decided to do something different and special to celebrate their love for each other. In their wedding invitations, they requested that guests make a donation to a good cause instead of bringing a wedding gift. The donations...

What better way to celebrate your 29th wedding anniversary than to share the love in your hearts with those who need it most? On their special day, Tony and Rosemarie Villareal coordinated the trip of 29 Filipino-Canadian doctors who turned over 60 boats in Leyte this week. Happy anniversary, Tony and Rosemarie!

Bash the Beagle turned two recently and did something we hope many more from both the dog-world and people-world would do , and celebrate their birthdays the way Bash did. Thank you, Bash, for sharing your birthday blessings with NVC Foundation! Woof woof!

A gracious lady in Bacolod who wishes to remain anonymous celebrated her 75th birthday with a small group of family and friends, with explicit instructions that there should be no gifts except a contribution to NVC’s Mingo Meals project for our Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program. As well loved as she is, more than...